The Hybrid Poem: What, Why, How?
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Workshop Description:
This generative workshop aims to explore and experiment with hybrid forms such as prose poems, vignettes, segmented poems, visual poems and poems that work with received forms, among others. We will read a variety of pieces by different authors and will try our hand at creating our own. Participants will leave with at least four drafts of new work and prompts to continue to practice and grow.
Workshop Details:
Fall 2026
Four sessions with Leonora Simonovis on Zoom
Thursday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 PM (ET)
Dates: September 3, 10, 17, 24
$215
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Workshop Facilitator:
Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American poet and the author of Study of the Raft, winner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry and Honorable Mention at the 2022 International Latino Book Awards. Her poems consider the intersections of myth, language, and story in connection to the land and to her experience as an exile. Leonora’s poetry has been featured in or is forthcoming from the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, About Place Journal, Amsterdam Review, Whale Road Review, SWWIM, and others. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Poetry Foundation, California Arts Council, The Poetry Lab, VONA, Vermont Studio Center, and Esperimento Sul Respiro. Leonora lives in Rochester, NY, with her family and two dogs.
Comments:
"Appreciated the materials being emailed to us beforehand to lightly review before meeting, and the sample approaches of how to get started with our writing with this workshop's theme."
"There were great prompts, which is something I find helps me to get started on the journey to writing."
"I'm so inspired to begin a new project related to what I was thinking about in this class!"
Questions: editors@riverheronreview.com
Refunds: Up to one week prior to the workshop start date, full refund minus $15 processing fee. After that time, there are no refunds.
Workshop sessions are not recorded, nor are there make up sessions.